Stream of Consciousness
The origins of your team If you are managing or working with a team, do you know its origins? Are you aware how it got built? Understanding the history of your team is one of the core factors in managing it well. Your attitude towards the team will be different
internal audit
What It Is Wikipedia defines confirmation bias as: ""a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses." As an internal auditor, confirmation bias is a risk. We may be too focused on proving our positions or our hypotheses we miss key information which
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A new feature on this blog, here are some of the articles I enjoyed reading these past weeks. The first one is necessarily long, but I will try to post on a weekly basis. Context Drives Choice (and Vice Versa) Entrepreneurs are often seen as great examples of free will
Getting Things Done
Embracing outcomes I've always embraced the idea of defining outcomes for all projects in my project list. It made me feel like my projects were going somewhere, rather then being just a summary of disjointed actionable items which had some commonality because they aimed to achieve a certain
Getting Things Done
Introduction A couple of days taking a car instead of public transportation really eats into my opportunity for writing. Apple launching its iOS 7 did not help either, as I spent all of the past two nights installing and playing with it. That said, I did take the time last
Stream of Consciousness
This excellent article by David Silverman illustrates the challenging nature of internal audit's profession. We do get a bad rap, quite often. Enjoy the article.
risk management
What is a risk register? A risk register is an as complete as possible overview of all the risks that may potentially impact an activity, a process, a division or an entire organization within the scope of a risk assessment. What is the purpose of a risk register? A risk
risk management
We don't want to know what can go wrong When I'm looking at a risk management implementation from an audit point of view, I often worry about two fundamentally opposite problems. On the one hand, I note that quite often the risk identification exercise is not
Stream of Consciousness
People make mistakes. I am a person, and I do tend to make a lot of mistakes. Especially concerning websites and blogs. I am not a technologist, I am not a designer. On occassion, I feel like a writer. But anything beyond that is beyond me. That recently came to
risk management
The risk management context often lacks clear boundaries One of the challenges of risk management is that its context is for all practical purposes unlimited. Risk management is about dealing with all the potential risks an organization can be exposed to, covers the entire scope of activities of that organization
Stream of Consciousness
Behind this link you will find an article I recently wrote for the BTC/CTB blog on how relative risk management can be if different parties have different contexts. I know that context and the impact is has on content - and risk is content - is a recently recurring theme for
Stream of Consciousness
Revisiting Kourosh It has been a while since I visited "Workflow: beyond productivity" by Kourosh Dini. I am still working on a number of articles that bring the ideas in his book to a corporate context. This post is not among those articles. I want to talk about